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What does ‘brain dead’ really mean? The battle over how science defines the end of life
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What does ‘brain dead’ really mean? The battle over how science defines the end of life

Max Kozlov The concept of brain death is facing its greatest challenge in the United States in decades. Credit: Alexandra Pavlova/Getty Dead in California but alive in New Jersey: that was the status of 13-year-old Jahi McMath after physicians in Oakland, California, declared her brain dead in 2013, after complications from a tonsillectomy. Unhappy with...